Hacker News: ahmeni

New comment by ahmeni in "IBM tripling entry-level jobs after finding the limits of AI adoption"

ahmeni — Sat, 14 Feb 2026 23:57:36 +0000

Huh, weird, another "technological marvel" whose primary effect just seems to be devaluing labour.

New comment by ahmeni in "JuiceSSH – Give me my pro features back"

ahmeni — Tue, 27 Jan 2026 04:51:56 +0000

The Musescore app is just a minefield of subscription farming, it was somehow miserable even with an existing subscription the number of times it tried to get me to also get their weird AI learning platform. Now I've left it entirely.

New comment by ahmeni in "Oh My Zsh adds bloat"

ahmeni — Sat, 10 Jan 2026 05:41:43 +0000

Should have been titled "I probably don't need Oh My Zsh because of my weird niche tab workflow" but that's a lot less clickbaity.

New comment by ahmeni in "Applets are officially gone, but Java in the browser is better"

ahmeni — Mon, 08 Dec 2025 08:58:33 +0000

This is an interesting project and it's always neat to see things that are able to compile down to WASM for running in the browser. However, looking through the docs for Flavour and this feels like it would get very painful very quickly trying to write anything of substance.

New comment by ahmeni in "Microsoft is plugging more holes that let you use Windows 11 without MS account"

ahmeni — Tue, 07 Oct 2025 02:51:52 +0000

middle management driven development is the mindset, not the people. it is the core of number go up at all cost

New comment by ahmeni in "Microsoft is plugging more holes that let you use Windows 11 without MS account"

ahmeni — Tue, 07 Oct 2025 00:17:28 +0000

MS owes people a working basic Windows ecosystem. We need to find the Middle Manager Driven Development that's responsible for this nonsense and put an end to it.

New comment by ahmeni in "Gemini 2.5 Flash Image"

ahmeni — Wed, 27 Aug 2025 03:59:26 +0000

Really like how they were so excited to release this that they managed to break existing SKUs and cause a bunch of GCP customers to get billed at 100x rates for text tokens as flash image generation tokens.

New comment by ahmeni in "The first big AI disaster is yet to happen"

ahmeni — Mon, 16 Jun 2025 01:39:29 +0000

There's a reason real research has controls around it to prevent harm.

New comment by ahmeni in "The first big AI disaster is yet to happen"

ahmeni — Wed, 11 Jun 2025 23:11:34 +0000

The first big AI disaster has already happened and it is the thousand little cuts from people putting faith into systems that aren't built to be trustworthy. It is the software dev missing a critical safety check because "ai coding tools" at work have promised 10x delivery results and now they must use them or be seen as falling behind. It is the engineering manager throwing concrete flexural strength questions into the unaccountable void of ChatGPT because he doesn't want to pay for the overtime of asking someone accountable. It is the foolhardy amount of money being shoveled into the entire ecosystem that absolutely cannot provide the returns people need for any of it to make financial sense.

New comment by ahmeni in "Red Hat Ansible and HashiCorp Terraform Will Be Coming Together"

ahmeni — Thu, 29 May 2025 22:04:25 +0000

The only thing worse than Terraform is not using Terraform. It's a pain but always worth using.

New comment by ahmeni in "GitHub MCP exploited: Accessing private repositories via MCP"

ahmeni — Tue, 27 May 2025 11:24:13 +0000

Don't forget the also fun classic "what you want to do is not possible with scoped tokens so enjoy your PAT". I think we're now at year 3 of PATs being technically deprecated but still absolutely required in some use cases.

New comment by ahmeni in "US Copyright Office found AI companies breach copyright. Its boss was fired"

ahmeni — Mon, 12 May 2025 13:07:12 +0000

If only there was some sort of term for fake democracy where you're actually just there to plunder resources.

New comment by ahmeni in "Microsoft researchers developed a hyper-efficient AI model that can run on CPUs"

ahmeni — Thu, 17 Apr 2025 05:35:55 +0000

I will never not be forever saddened by the fact that Apple killed their Xserve line shortly before the App store got big. We all ended up having to do dumb things like rack-mount Mac Minis for app CI builds for years and it was such a pain.

New comment by ahmeni in "Developer pockets $2M in savings from going cloud-free"

ahmeni — Wed, 23 Oct 2024 03:08:21 +0000

With salaries, overheads, management, etc. about 7. But then you'd have to subtract from your shiny savings number.

New comment by ahmeni in "Developer pockets $2M in savings from going cloud-free"

ahmeni — Mon, 21 Oct 2024 14:18:41 +0000

Always reassuring to hear that labour for everything here is free.

New comment by ahmeni in "Amazon virtually kills efforts to develop Alexa Skills"

ahmeni — Fri, 12 Apr 2024 06:09:44 +0000

Normal people don't want to have a conversation with their Alexa device. They want simple, reliable commands to do the common things in their household. Anyone who's tried to order something off Amazon through a screenless Echo knows the pain.

Skills were always dead in the water the minute they required an AWS account and a Lambda deployment to get going. That's a miserable thing to develop (and an AWS account itself being a looming financial liability) and maintain even if you're familiar with all the inner junctions of Lambda and IAM.

New comment by ahmeni in "IBM's Asshole Test"

ahmeni — Thu, 05 May 2022 03:57:00 +0000

I think you've just failed the test.

New comment by ahmeni in "Chromium: Permit blocking of view-source: with URLBlocklist"

ahmeni — Wed, 10 Nov 2021 05:21:48 +0000

My son has now done many months of homeschooling during Sydney's lockdown via Google Classroom and this feature request is completely unsurprising as the product is a complete joke.

New comment by ahmeni in "Show HN: ThermOS – A DIY multi-zone homekit compatible thermostat"

ahmeni — Sat, 09 Jan 2021 06:55:37 +0000

Glad to see another HAP-Python user! Project is lookin' good

New comment by ahmeni in "Google Supports the News Industry"

ahmeni — Tue, 08 Sep 2020 01:27:24 +0000

It's a very bizarre and false claim that Google doesn't "use" news content and that they are doing this as some sort of altruistic system of "allowing these publishers to make money by showing their own ads". Google itself serves ads, runs a massive ad network and makes a ton of money in the process. Every point in this process that they touch, be it search results or AMP pages or even destination pages that use Google Analytics are of some benefit to Google either directly as ad revenue or indirectly as data capture.